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• Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Thinking, Want

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• A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, People, Hatred

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• Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective troops for Jewish stores. No, the police protect whoever comes into Germany legitimately, but it does not exist for the purpose of protecting Jewish money-lenders.

  Hermann Goring

  Hurt, People, History

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• If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

  Victoria Woodhull

  Mother, Women, Government

  "A Lecture on Constitutional Equality / The Great Secession Speech". Speech to Woman's Suffrage Convention, New York, May 11, 1871.

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• Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Women, Issues, Feminist

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• Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Determination, Men, Rights

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast-that is a man of courage. The fellow whom you taunt as a 'slacker' because he refuses to turn murderer-he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune of general approval and the Star Spangled Banner?

  Alexander Berkman

  Country, Stars, War

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction... I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow... I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Believe

  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s acceptance speech on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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  I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

  Harlan Ellison

  Jobs, Writing, Years

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• This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today, there are many things right, such as teachers who teach, ministers who minister, marriages that make it, parents who sacrifice, and friends who help. "We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Teacher, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Nov 26, 2014

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• The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

  Jackie Vernon

  Sassy, Nerves, Earth

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• I refused to worry about something I could not change, and I still refuse. Look, I'm like any other woman. All this evolved b.s. that I'm telling you is my mantra. It's not something I practice naturally. I had to surrender to not worrying about the way I looked, how much I weighed, because that's just part of the journey of having a baby. I am not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size.

  Kristen Bell

  Baby, Self Worth, Journey

  "How to Be Happy, By Kristen Bell". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention.

  Paulo Freire

  Teaching, People, Needs

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.128, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Running, Writing, Wine

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Independence, Bidding

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.300, Vintage

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• Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Song: Silent Legacy, Album: Yes I Am

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• (Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

  Charles Stanley

  Doors, Choices, Discouragement

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• What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

  John Hampden

  Kings, Demand, Economics

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• Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil.

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy

  Philosophy, Government, Giving

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• Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread accusations with no basis? Why would they refuse to correct their arguments once they had been shown to be incorrect? And why did the press continue to quote them, year after year, even as their claims were shown, one after another, to be false?

  Naomi Oreskes

  Years, World, Argument

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• I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

  Barack Obama

  Fixing, Generations, Climate Change

  Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

  John C. Sawhill

  Environmental, Climate Change, Defined

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• The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Science, Law

  "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations". 1988.

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• So this estate is given each of us to determine whether or not we will merit glory and honor "for ever and ever," or whether we will rebel and refuse or be indifferent and not comply with the conditions and the laws and the ordinances provided by a merciful Father for our guidance through life and our protection and our salvation and thereby, by so doing, deny ourselves the fabulous gift and blessing of eternal life. This life, then, is a time of "sifting," a time when the "wheat" is separated from the "chaff," a time of deciding who is who and where we will live after we die.

  ElRay L. Christiansen

  Life, Father, Blessing

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• Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky will open and the liberating intrusion will descend upon you.

  Jack Miles

  Inspirational, Sky, Littles

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